My General Election Campaign Fund

Killian Mangan is organizing this fundraiser.

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Please note: Donations are only permitted from people living in Ireland or from Irish Citizens living abroad. Anonymous donations should not exceed €100. I appreciate all support but those are just the campaign finance laws.

Hi - my name is Killian Mangan and I am a progressive independent candidate for Waterford in the upcoming General Election!

I'm from Butlerstown and went to primary school there before going to secondary in Tramore. After finishing school, I moved over to Glasgow to study computer game design and then during the pandemic spent a year living back in Waterford, before moving to Barcelona and working in a call centre there in order to be closer to my boyfriend at the time. I spent 2 years working in a games company in Edinburgh before leaving my job and moving back home to Waterford in order to focus on politics and political activism in order to try to help make a better Waterford and Ireland.

After founding a remote-work game development studio called Quarant Inc 4 years ago, I worked with others to structur that company as a co-operative – a democratic business - and was then elected as the Team/Creative Lead, working full-time to release a video game on PC, before switching to part-time development in order to prioritise my day job working as a Game and Environment Designer in a large games company in Edinburgh. I continue to lead a development team of 5 people in my free time and take charge of production and management of project development and the company.

In Scotland, I dedicated a lot of my free time to both electoral politics and political activism, learning a massive amount through my work fighting for tenants’ rights in Scotland’s housing crisis as an active member of Scottish tenants’ union Living Rent. In recent years, I have been actively engaged in politics in Waterford at a local and national level.

I also helped to found the Waterford Branch of CATU (Community Action Tenants’ Union) and serve as the Comms Officer. I am also active in the pro-diversity group Waterford For All. I also participated in the ACTC (Anti-Conversion Therapy Coalition), a cross-party, all-island group lobbying the governments on this island to ban conversion therapy. I also created a remote-work game development company structured as a democratic worker co-operative called Quarant Inc. and was elected as Team/Creative Lead, working on and releasing multiple games in recent years.

With a history of IBS and anxiety, I am a keen advocate for accessibility in society, and co-ordinated a written response to the Government green paper on disability allowance reform. I have a significant interest in designing better and accessible public spaces, providing more public toilets, and improving tenants’ rights.

I'd like to explain what I mean when I call myself a progressive independent; I believe in moving forward towards a world where everyone is more equal and empowered, and where people and planet live in harmony. I would also consider myself a left-libertarian, democratic socialist, eco-socialist and market socialist, but feel that progressive best encompasses all of my beliefs.

As a progressive candidate, I aspire to help popularise a democratic market economy; public, non-profit, and co-operative companies operating in a democratic market with a fair balance between competition and cooperation based on the concept that “a rising tide raises all boats”. This economic model has already achieved huge success in sustainable economic growth without increasing inequality in the Basque Country in Spain, as well as creating the only housing system in the West which has avoided a housing crisis in Vienna, Austria. I'm also a keen believer in universal services and progressive taxation, as well as democratic reform and localism.

I have so far avoided asking for donations, as I spent the past few months saving up money, but ultimately running a general election campaign isn't cheap, and I appreciate each and every donation that people feel able to give!

I want to be fully transparent and so far, this is what I have spent so far on the general election:

-€4.70 bank fees

-€30.51 Hosting fees for WeAllThrive.ie

+€433.69 first lodgement of donations (thank you everyone!)

-€96.48 printing 500 fundraiser leaflets

+€463.56 second lodgement of donations (thanks!)

+€500 loan from parents

+€700 transfer from my personal account

+€1000 loan from parents

+€419.88 third lodgement of donations (thank you so much!)

+€115.51 fourth lodgement of donations (thank you)

-€1500.60 printing 100 posters

Any donations will be spent on further printing, design work, and advertising my campaign. I will keep my list of expenses updated as I spend money on my campaign. I am also organising a fundraising and event night for young people to vote and donate to my campaign.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING DONATION GUIDELINES (Citizens Information and SIPO Guidelines):

I cannot accept no more than €1,000 from a specific donor in a calendar year.
No anonymous donations over €100.
I cannot accept cash donations of over €200.
For corporate donations over €200 the donor must be registered with the Standards in Public Office Commission and evidence that the donation was approved by the corporate body must be provided.
I cannot accept donations from people residing abroad, unless they are an Irish Citizen.
I cannot accept donations in the form of cryptocurrency.

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